Women on the Role of Public Higher Education

1. Introduction; Deborah S. Gambs and Rose M. Kim PART I: LEARNING TO BE CRITICAL 2. The 'Children of the Whole People' Can Be Educated; Michelle Ronda 3. Taking Refuge in the Public University: From Harvard to CUNY; Grace M. Cho 4. The Personal is Global, the Political is Communal, the Rest is Teaching and Mentoring; Laura Fantone 5. Reflections On My Public Education; Angelique Harris 6. Network Analysis: Personal Connections Within and Across Academies in NYC; Melissa Hope Ditmore PART II: BUILDING CARING COMMUNITIES 7. The Accidental Scholar: Overcoming the Odds and Succeeding through CUNY; Jennifer Pastor 8. Start Over; Start Again; Hosu Kim 9. Creating Caring Communities at the Graduate Center; Robin G. Isserles 10. Learning to Ask Life's Big Questions; Rose M. Kim 11. My Not-At-All-Private Metamorphosis: On the Graduate Center of The City University of New York and Public School Spaces; Jean Halley PART III: BECOMING AND STAYING PUBLIC 12. Striving to Stay Public; Alia Tyner Mullings 13. Becoming Public; Deirdre Conlon 14. An Open University: Taking the Experimental Path; Deborah S. Gambs 15. An International Student's Reflections on the CUNY Years: Far Away, So Close; Ayse Akalin